Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Cocktail of the Week: The Capone

Cocktail of the Week: The Capone

Like its namesake, this drink packs a punch

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Deirdre Capone, Al Capone’s great-niece and author of the book Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside his Family, insisted that Templeton rye was his favorite liquor. Templeton is a small town in Iowa whose bootleggers during Prohibition supposedly turned out an illegal product known as “The Good Stuff” that was supposedly sold to Capone in Chica…

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